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Marion Cross School serves students in
Kindergarten through Grade 6
as part of the Norwich School District
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Dear Parents and Community Members:
At a special meeting this evening the Norwich School Board met
and unanimously approved Bill Hammond as the
next principal of Marion Cross School. Bill and the Board signed
a two year agreement which will begin July 1, 2012.
Bill has spent the last 30 plus years in the area beginning in
the fall of 1979 when he entered Dartmouth College as a member
of the class of ‘83. After graduation he accepted a position at
Hanover High School as a member of the Math and English Departments
and over the past 29 years he has been not just a teacher and
mentor, but also a pioneer for new and innovative approaches to
teaching that attempt to reach all students.
The Norwich School Board thanks the entire community for their
active participation in the search process. We were fortunate
to have had three very strong candidates for the position. But
in the end, it was clear that Bill had the talent and traits that
the school, the community and the Board were looking for in their
next principal.
Neil Odell
Chairman Norwich School Board
Please click
here for a short
note from Bill Hammond (Mr. Bill) regarding his appointment as
the new principal of the Marion Cross School.
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Please click
here for a description of two new environmental
projects for MCS from our LEEEP coordinator, Lindsay Putnam.
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PTO/Norwich
Recreation Family
It was a wonderful night for skating. So many families
came out on a beautiful night to join friends and classmates
for skating and refreshments.
For more information (and some larger versions of these
pictures!) please see the February 10th edition of the PTO
newsletter. It can be downloaded from our PTO
Newsletter page.
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First
Graders Take a Tour of Norwich
The first grade has visited the Norwich Post Office, Ledyard
Bank, Norwich Fire Station, Dan and Whit's and had a visit
with Chief Robinson of the Norwich Police Department. A
big thank you to all the "community helpers" who
gave us great information about what they do for our community. |
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The UnderGround
Railroad
The fourth grade production of The Underground
Railroad was a huge hit and enjoyed by staff, students
and parents on November 17th. The students were involved
in every aspect of the production from costumes, props,
lighting, music and acting.
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MCS
Joins EcoSchool Program
Marion Cross School has become a "pilot school"
in a new international initiative sponsored by the National
Wildlife Federation called EcoSchool. This
program is a structured, interdisciplinary, whole community
approach to "greening" the school, the community,
and the planet. The first "Pathway" we have chosen
to do in the program is called "Green Hour", which
promotes children being active in the outdoors on a regular
basis. We are doing this in conjunction with the annual
"Passport to Winter Fun", brought
to us by the Upper Valley Trails Alliance and the Norwich
Women's Club. Sixth grade students helped to create a survey
that every student will fill out about our current level
of outdoor activity, and again at the end of the program
to assess any improvement. Our goals are to increase participation
in the Passport program over previous years, and to spend
more time outside this winter overall. As we progress through
the program, we will be incorporating much of our existing
environmental curriculum, projects, and community service
work into a unified EcoSchool hub around which all our various
eco-projects can turn.
For more information on the interesting details of EcoSchool
please click on this link.http://www.nwf.org/Global-Warming/School-Solutions/Eco-Schools-USA.aspx |
Passport
To Winter Fun
Our annual participation in the Upper Valley Trails Alliance
program, Passport to Winter Fun, has begun.
This is an incentive-based program of the Upper Valley Trails
Alliance that encourages children to be more active in the
winter months, particularly in the outdoors. All students
have received a "Passport" booklet to document
their activity through the different levels of the program
over the next 30 days. At the completion of each level,
students are eligible to receive a "prize" from
a local establishment in the form of an outdoor activity;
for example, a free trail pass and equipment rental at a
XC ski center, or a free day pass to the Upper Valley Aquatic
Center. While every student has received a Passport, participation
is completely voluntary and is up to individual families
to support as they wish. Thank you to the Norwich Women's
Club for again supporting MCS in the Passport program!
For more information, check the Passport
Information Sheet or this website: http://www.uvtrails.org/
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A Note from
Bill Hammond
Dear Norwich Community,
I'm deeply pleased to have been selected as the next principal
of the
Marion Cross School. Having lived in Norwich for the first
third of my
career, I feel like I'm coming back home. As a teacher,
I have worked
to give my students a challenging, rewarding, and perspective-altering
view of the way the world works. As a principal, I will
continue—principally—to learn, to teach, to analyze, to
question, to improve, and to celebrate the great work that
our students and faculty and staff do.
Thank you. I look forward to working with all of you to
develop the
best education we can for the children of our community.
Mr. Bill
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